Commenting on Augmented Structures v2.0 FRaC wrote "i don't know what it is, but i like it" while Derek Kaplan felt the Liyuan Library in Jiaojiehe Village was "Beautiful" and continued "The rough twig facade is a little close to something like camouflage, but... so well executed, and to such effect...assuming there are no sprinklers because they were not required by code for public occupancy there"?

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Over at the NYT Opinionator blog Allison Arieff examined the pros and cons of micro-units in How Small is Too Small?brooklynmade argued "Depends on where it's being sold. Demand is there. Seems for every person who doesn't like the idea, there's at least one other person who does. 50/50 is pretty good odds", but toasteroven wondered "Who are these micro units for?" and linked to a NYT investigation by Winnie Hu titled Some See Little Room for Large, Poor Families in Mayor’s Housing Plan.

MovingCities provided an update on to the question Whatever happened toOrdos100? What Metropolitan Monk found particularly noteworthy was "the discovery of the change in ownership of ordos100-site. ...the transfer further included the entire collection of plans, designs, documents and licenses (and several employees) and all this with none or few of the architects ever knowing about it".

Greg Lindsay profiled the "renegade architect" Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang Architects in the Wall Street Journal Magazine. HandsumCa$hMoneyYo complained "The hell? How come newspapers & magazine keep plying the narrative that ‘this guys isn't a star’ or ‘she's an anti-celebrity’ all the while they are publishing an article specifically featuring that person? We may be stupid but we can see through this shit". For her part Donna Sink disagreed with the complaints of some commenters "Mediocre as compared to what, jla-x? I love her work and it's the basis in materials that I enjoy - very sensual, very intimate".

Joshua Nimmo is Principal at NIMMO American Studio For Progressive Architecture. The firm won the 2011 AIA Dallas Merit for their project Emerging Dallas an example of the Multi Unit Single-Family typology.

Later Stars + Stripes provided an update "i've decided not to pursue these projects. the client and developer wanted to work without a contract. i laughed and told them to find someone who was willing to take on that liability".

cmrhm was looking for help translating the English name for a type of drawing, believing it to be either a site plan or something like hypsography? curtkram differed from the first two respondents by arguing "i'm going to go with master plan. there are multiple projects and it doesn't have the sort of utility or grading and whatnot detail that a site plan would have". As usual, Rusty Shackleford provided a zinger "Be more content specific! I'd personally go with ‘nouveau-burb shitfest birds-eye’." and JsBach concluded "I have always thought of a master plan as a site plan based on all the phases of a bigger construction project, that will be developed at different times".

Thecyclisthas a mullion material question. Inspired by the mullions designed by H&dM on 40 Bond Street in NYC, Thecyclist would like to design a mullion with the same basic shape but made out of "cast-iron with a heavier feel". J. James R. noted that the mullions on 40 Bond Street are "Porcelain-coated cast iron. Good luck finding a time machine to go back to the 19th-century though. The only supplier I can think of off the top of my head is Neolith. And Neolith, I believe, is iron-coated porcelain", although a-f commented "Probably the weight/strength factor of massive cast iron makes it completely unfeasible for window mullions, but I really like the idea”.